Volume 9 · Issue 3 · March 2004

Contents

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How Do You Prepare to Audit the Process-Based QMS?

In this excerpt from How to Audit the Process-Based QMS, Dennis R. Arter, Charles A. Cianfrani and John E. (Jack) West write that there are 7 steps that must be taken before the data collection part of the audit starts. They explore the 7 steps for audit planning, each of which is a process, with the output from one becoming the input for one or more subsequent steps.